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Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers.
And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers.
Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need!
Green category - Shows to watch.
Blue category - Like padlocks, or musical compositions.
Purple category - If you hate to go here, you might grow up to be a mule.
BEWARE: Spoilers follow for todays Connections puzzle!
Were about to give away some of the answers.
Scroll slowly if you dont want the whole thing spoiled.
(The full solution is a bit further down.)
A heads up about the tricky parts
This one is a bit sneakier than usual.
Notice that HARD KNOCKS is plural, and thus, no relation to the song from the ANNIE musical.
By the way, if you like Broadway shows, youll pick out one of todays categories pretty easily.
The plural animals are not what they seem.
CATS, by the way, is not like the others.
What are the categories in todays Connections?
I give them all away below.
What are the yellow words in todays Connections?
The yellow grouping is considered to be the most straightforward.
What are the green words in todays Connections?
The green grouping is supposed to be the second-easiest.
What are the blue words in todays Connections?
The blue grouping is the second-hardest.
What are the purple words in todays Connections?
The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest.
How I solved todays Connections
HARD KNOCKS?
Thats a metaphorical school.
We pay attention to details here, like whether a word is plural.)
What other schools are on the board?
I was thinking ofRock of Love.
But there is amoviecalledSchool of Rock.)
Next I saw BUGS, HOUNDS, and BADGERS, and figured there must be a category of annoyances.
ANNIE, CABARET, and CATS are all musicals.
COMPANY sounds like a winner, and I quickly Google it to checkyep, its a musical.
Or, I guess, all the TESTS in a school might, collectively, have many keys.
That explains the plural.
So how does SUPER fit in?
Ah yesyou might call your apartment complexs SUPER (superintendent) if youre locked out.
Youll see a game board with 16 tiles, each with one word or phrase.
Your job is to select a group of four tiles that have something in common.
Select four items and hit the Submit button.
If you guessed correctly, the category and color will be revealed.
(Yellow is easiest, followed by green, then blue, then purple.)
If your guess was incorrect, youll get a chance to loop back and try.
You win when youve correctly identified all four groups.
But if you make four mistakes before you finish, the game ends and the answers are revealed.
Expect to see overlapping groups.
So dont hit submit until youve confirmed that your group of four containsonlythose four things.
If youre stuck, another strategy is to look at the words that seem to havenoconnection to the others.
Check back tomorrow for the next puzzle!
